Vijay Ayyar

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Vijay Ayyar is the VP of International Markets & Growth, leads international strategy and expansion for the business, aiming to establish our brand and presence globally. In his previous roles at Luno, another leading crypto wallet and exchange, he launched and led operations in 40+ markets globally while working closely with regulators and bank partners in a number of jurisdictions. He also led investments into multiple crypto, FinTech, and payment startups, and explored Web3 wallets and emerging market stablecoins with partners.

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Sumit Gupta

Sumit Gupta is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CoinDCX, India’s first crypto unicorn and cryptocurrency exchange. As a pioneer in India’s crypto industry, Sumit has been instrumental in bringing the emerging asset class to the consciousness of India’s mainstream. In his role, Sumit is responsible for the overall strategy and growth of CoinDCX, and is the driving force behind the company’s vision to onboard 50 million Indians into crypto. As co-chair of the Blockchain and Crypto Assets Council (BACC), a part of IAMAI, whose members are crypto exchanges operating in India, Sumit is an influential industry figure who advocates actively for better understanding and adoption of crypto. When Bitcoin began gaining traction in 2014, Sumit saw the potential of leveraging blockchain technology to enable financial inclusion and saw crypto’s potential to supercharge India’s growing innovation economy. Together with his team at CoinDCX, Sumit is committed to democratizing access to crypto for India, empowering Indians to manage their digital wealth in an increasingly digital and decentralized future.  Sumit holds an Undergraduate and Master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Neeraj Khandelwal

Neeraj Khandelwal is the co-founder of Okto and CoinDCX.

Ronny Conway

Ronny Conway is the Founder & General Partner at A.Capital. Prior to starting A.Capital, Ronny was one of the first Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, where he was the head of seed and early-stage investing and was involved in such high profile investments as Airbnb, Instagram, Optimizely, Pinterest, Dollar Shave Club and Twitter. Before a16z, Ronny spent six years at Google, and was one of the first employees at Google Ventures. Ronny has spent most of his life around venture capital, and received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA.

Arran Schlosberg

Arran Schlosberg was the VP of Engineering at Proof Holdings. Presively, he worked at HealthMatch and Google. Arran Schlosberg graduated from University of Sydney and University of Cambridge.

Mohit Bansal

Mohit Bansal is head of strategy at Avail and previously was Director of Business operations at Unacademy. He is a graduate of Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

Stephen Tse

Stephen Tse is the Founder and CEO of Harmony. He sold one of his startups to Apple and worked on infrastructure projects at Google. Stephen has raised $18 million in seed round funding and built a top-level engineering team to develop the next generation of high-performance blockchain protocols.

Niraj Pant

Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder at Ritual. Presively he was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he invests in early-stage cryptocurrency projects. Prior to this role, he researched privacy in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Niraj has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for CoinDCX, an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital, and Co-Founder and CTO of Source Networks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mike Belshe

Mike Belshe is the co-founder and CEO of BitGo. He previously created the world's first multi-signature web wallet for Bitcoin, and was one of the top 10 engineers on the Google Chrome team.

Soubhik Deb

Soubhik Deb is Head of protocol research at EigenLayer and was previously a research associate at the University of Washington. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Washington.

2PMFLOW

2PMFLOW is an Azuki co-founder and engineer who worked at Google and Y-Combinator.